And I 'clare to God, sirs, a nervous man looked up to see if the clouds werena spattered with the gore!
Maybe they werena referring to him; maybe they knew nothing of John in Edinburgh; maybe he had been foolishly suspeecious.
And a' the while they werena fit to be his doormat; for it was only the fire in the ruffian made him seem sae daft.
Appose I was bonnie, I wasna for Johnnie-- And werena my heart's licht, I wad dee.
What should we all do for shoes, if it werena for my school-money?
If it werena that we want that green tartan for a kilt for wee Willie, we might manage to get Nellie a frock out of that.
But they werena weel out of the room when Sir Robert gied a yelloch that garr'd the castle rock.
Forbye, you are a gentleman of Tweeddale, and it would be queer if you werena right-hearted, Master John Burnet.
If it werena for Mistress Marjory, it wad be a deal mair than your word wad keep me frae your side.
Some of the folk seemed willing to resist, because, as they said, "Whae kenned but that the body micht be a leear and they werena to hae a' this wark for naething?
Deil be in me but I wad do't mysell, an it werena in better hands.
We wad just take the auld gate as readily, if it werena for the law.
O were we young now as we ance hae been, We should hae been galloping down on yon green, And linking it owre the lily-white lea-- And werena my heart light I wad die.
He said ye werena to come again," was sobbed out by Jeannie, rather than spoken.
I hae fallen on evil days, Mysie; saxty years syne wives and bairns werena sae contrarie.
But what strack me first was that his seamit an' his drawers werena there.
Ye werenaaye sae cauld to me; Ye ance were blythe and gay, Jamie.
And I daresay some one could be found to do the work of the best and the busiest of us, if we werena able to do it.
I mind you used to be given to it yourself in the old times, when you werena at ease with yourself.
You werena well pleased with me, either, that day," said Mrs Snow.
You ken the family werena well pleased when your mother married, and the sisters didna meet often till Miss Marian grew ill.
Miss Graeme, my dear, if it werenafor the thought of seeing my mother and Sandy, my heart would fail me quite.
If it werena that, as a rule, I dinna like to meddle with such matters, I would have a word with her myself.
As though that werena the very thing that brought us both out as well as papa, though we said nothing about it before we came.
I told her that you werena going to Portie, except on Sundays, for a month yet, and she must come here and let you see it.
Werena you just the other day playing at `the beds' with Mavis, and Emily Corbett, and the rest of the bairns on the sands?
Ye had aye a good roof ower your head to fend aff the weather, and, if the windows werena glazed, it was the mair airy and pleasant for the summer season.
And werena thae pleasant guests, think ye, to take up their quarters in ae woman's heart?
They gaed oot themselves this morning, telling me they could work fine, even though you werena there.
Dumbartonshire, and asking Jeanie "if it werena a pleasant abode?
Your mother and Tom were picked up by the Curlew, but Carver and you werenafound for some days after the wreck.
If itwerena for his goodwife, he'd never open the Scriptures.
If it werena for that wee scratch on your cheek I wouldn't hae kenned ye had been in a fight; but as for Tom, why, he's just a perfect sight to look upon!
But we surgeons are a secret generation--If it werena for hot blood and ill blood, what wad become of the twa learned faculties?
Although the tither ootlaws wadna chairge themselves with Ned Lawless’ funeral, it is no’ to be infaired that he was buried without a prayer, or that tears werena shed o’er his lonely unhallowed grave.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "werena" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
